Defence: Procurement

Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the forecast cost of the A400M programme was from the  (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL),  (b) indirect resource DEL and  (c) capital DEL at 31 March (i) 2001, (ii) 2002, (iii) 2003, (iv) 2004, (v) 2005, (vi) 2006, (vii) 2007 and (viii) 2008.

Quentin Davies: The information you requested is shown in the following table, which includes the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture costs.
	
		
			  £ million 
			  As at 31 March:  Direct resource RDEL  Indirect resource DEL  Capital DEL  Total 
			 2005 16 180 2448 2644 
			 2006 23 181 2412 2616 
			 2007 24 171 2434 2629 
			 2008 34 171 2427 2632 
			 2001 1 158 2474 2633 
			 2002 34 145 2177 2356 
			 2003 28 296 2160 2484 
			 2004 16 187 2416 2619